Patents by Inventor Susumu Kojima
Susumu Kojima has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20240133771Abstract: An abnormality detection system for a combustor for a gas turbine, includes: a sensor for detecting whether an ignition plug is located at an insertion position in a combustion tube of the combustor for the gas turbine, the ignition plug being disposed movably between the insertion position and a retracted position retracted from the combustion tube; and a diagnostic unit configured to diagnose an abnormality in an ignition device including the ignition plug, based on a detection result by the sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2022Publication date: April 25, 2024Inventors: Tomoyuki KOJIMA, Susumu SEKINE, Kozo TOYAMA
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Patent number: 11388059Abstract: Provided is a technology for enabling smooth execution of a plurality of pieces of application software which perform communication via a communication path. A connection device includes: a storage unit which stores type priority level information for specifying a priority level assigned in advance for each type of a process, usable communication system information for specifying a usable communication system for each process, and sharing propriety information for specifying whether or not the communication system is sharable among a plurality of processes during the same period of time; a plurality of communication units which communicate to and from another device with use of the communication systems different from one another; and a communication system allocation control unit configured to identify the usable communication system and allocate, when the identified communication system is not sharable, the process to use the communication system based on the priority levels.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2019Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: Clarion Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takashi Matsumoto, Yasushi Nagai, Susumu Kojima, Ryo Shimizu, Motohiro Fuji, Kiminori Nakamura
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Publication number: 20200084111Abstract: Provided is a technology for enabling smooth execution of a plurality of pieces of application software which perform communication via a communication path. A connection device includes: a storage unit which stores type priority level information for specifying a priority level assigned in advance for each type of a process, usable communication system information for specifying a usable communication system for each process, and sharing propriety information for specifying whether or not the communication system is sharable among a plurality of processes during the same period of time; a plurality of communication units which communicate to and from another device with use of the communication systems different from one another; and a communication system allocation control unit configured to identify the usable communication system and allocate, when the identified communication system is not sharable, the process to use the communication system based on the priority levels.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2019Publication date: March 12, 2020Inventors: Takashi Matsumoto, Yasushi Nagai, Susumu Kojima, Ryo Shimizu, Motohiro Fuji, Kiminori Nakamura
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Patent number: 10516576Abstract: Provided is a technology for enabling smooth execution of a plurality of pieces of application software which perform communication via a communication path.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2015Date of Patent: December 24, 2019Assignee: Clarion Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takashi Matsumoto, Yasushi Nagai, Susumu Kojima, Ryo Shimizu, Motohiro Fuji, Kiminori Nakamura
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Patent number: 10514268Abstract: An in-vehicle terminal sends a speech input from a voice input unit as a voice signal to a relay server using a short-range wireless communication unit. The relay server converts the voice data received from the in-vehicle terminal into a string with a voice recognition unit, and makes an inquiry, via a communication unit, to an address database of a database server as to whether the string is a geographical condition. If the string converted by the voice recognition unit is a geographical condition based on the inquiry result of the communication unit, a POI data base is searched based on the geographical condition and a stored non-geographical condition, and the geographical condition is stored in a search history. If the string is a non-geographical condition, the POI database is searched based on the non-geographical condition and the geographical condition stored in the search history, and the non-geographical condition is stored in the search history.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2015Date of Patent: December 24, 2019Assignee: Clarion Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takashi Yamaguchi, Susumu Kojima
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Patent number: 10337878Abstract: An in-vehicle terminal sends a spoken voice as a voice signal to a relay server, and the relay server includes a voice recognition unit which converts the received voice signal into a string, and a control unit which searches for information stored in a main database or a temporary storage database by using the string and sends a search result to the in-vehicle terminal, and, upon searching for information stored in the main database, stores the search result in the temporary storage database. Upon receiving a voice signal, when the search result is stored in the temporary storage database, the control unit searches for information stored in the temporary storage database by using the string converted from the received voice signal, and, when the search result is not stored in the temporary storage database, the control unit searches for information stored in the main database by using the string.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2015Date of Patent: July 2, 2019Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.Inventors: Susumu Kojima, Takashi Yamaguchi, Hideki Takano, Yasushi Nagai
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Patent number: 10326842Abstract: A terminal connection device includes: a storage unit configured to store a priority based on a type of processing information for performing input or output of information; a communication unit configured to receive from another device a processing request in which the processing information is identified; and an input and output path assignment unit configured to acquire, when the communication unit has received the processing request, the type of the processing information identified in the processing request, to identify, by using an external processing information priority, which is a priority based on the type, and candidates of usable input and output paths for each piece of the processing information, the input and output path for executing the processing information relating to the processing request, and to assign the processing information to the identified input and output path.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2015Date of Patent: June 18, 2019Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.Inventors: Shinichi Obata, Takashi Matsumoto, Yasushi Nagai, Susumu Kojima
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Patent number: 10072628Abstract: A control device for an engine of the invention executes an automatic stop control for stopping stop a rotation of a crank shaft when a predetermined automatic stop condition is satisfied. The device acquires a focused peak value of the engine speed appearing after a time when a rotation direction of the crank shaft first reverses while the automatic stop control has been executed, determines, based on the focused peak value, whether there will be an excessive peak value expected to depart from a predetermined permission range after the focused peak value appears, and executes a starter start control for driving the starter, restarting the fuel supply and igniting the fuel to restart an operation of the engine when a predetermined restart condition is satisfied, the engine speed is within the predetermined permission range and it has been determined that there will be no excessive peak value.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2016Date of Patent: September 11, 2018Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yusuke Suzuki, Susumu Kojima
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Patent number: 10041426Abstract: A control apparatus for a four-cycle internal combustion engine that includes a plurality of cylinders into which fuel is directly injected, includes an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to: (i) execute stop control that stops rotation of a crankshaft of the internal combustion engine by stopping fuel injection and ignition in the internal combustion engine when a predetermined stop condition is fulfilled; and (ii) carry out fuel injection and ignition in a second cylinder of the plurality of the cylinders when the stop control is executed, the second cylinder being in an exhaust stroke when the internal combustion engine is stopped, when a piston of a first cylinder of the plurality of the cylinders is estimated to stop at a top dead center.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2015Date of Patent: August 7, 2018Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Susumu Kojima
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Patent number: 10006430Abstract: A control device of a vehicle including an engine, an electric motor, and a clutch disposed on a power transmission path between the engine and the electric motor, the control device of a vehicle performing an ignition start causing combustion in a cylinder of the engine to rotate the engine at a start of the engine, the control device of a vehicle switching a cylinder in which combustion is first caused in the engine based on an actuation during a rotation stop process of the engine of an exhaust valve in a cylinder stopped in an expansion stroke, when performing the ignition start at the start of the engine.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2013Date of Patent: June 26, 2018Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Susumu Kojima
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Patent number: 9903332Abstract: The invention relates to a control device of a multi-cylinder internal combustion engine. The control device starts executing an ignition engine start control to restart the engine operation when a predetermined engine restart request is generated, a last signal output from a crank angel sensor corresponds to the compression TDC and a signal is output from the sensor before a time elapsing from the output of the last signal reaches a predetermined time. The control device starts executing a starter engine start control when the engine restart request is generated, the last signal output from the sensor corresponds to the compression TDC and no signal is output from the sensor before a time elapsing from the output of the last signal reaches the predetermined time.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2016Date of Patent: February 27, 2018Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Susumu Kojima, Yusuke Suzuki
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Patent number: 9869260Abstract: The control device executes a first control for controlling a throttle valve opening degree to a first opening degree when a particular condition is satisfied. The particular condition is a condition that it is predicted upon a satisfaction of an engine stop condition that a level of one of noise and vibration generated in an interior of a vehicle from a source other than an engine is equal to or larger than a predetermined level when an engine rotation stops. The control device executes a second control for controlling the throttle valve opening degree to a second opening degree larger than the first opening degree without executing the first control when the particular condition is not satisfied upon the satisfaction of the engine stop condition.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2016Date of Patent: January 16, 2018Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Susumu Kojima, Yusuke Suzuki
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Patent number: 9863389Abstract: A control unit according to the present invention performs an automatic stop control in which an injection of fuel from a fuel injection valve is stopped to stop a rotation of an engine when an automatic stop condition is satisfied. Furthermore, the control unit performs a first injection, in which fuel is injected from the fuel injection valve of a cylinder in an expansion stroke, and an ignition operation for igniting the fuel injected by the first injection, when a restart demand occurs after an initiation of the automatic stop control. In addition, the control unit performs a second injection, in which fuel is injected from the fuel injection valve of a cylinder in a compression stroke, and an ignition operation for igniting the fuel injected by the second injection.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2016Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yusuke Suzuki, Susumu Kojima
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Patent number: 9856801Abstract: The invention relates to a control device of a vehicle provided with a multi-cylinder internal combustion engine comprising a catalyst in an exhaust passage. When a state of an ignition switch has been changed from an on-state to an off-state and a rotation of the engine has stopped, the control device causes a fuel injector to inject fuel into a combustion chamber of a particular cylinder in which an intake valve is closed and an exhaust valve is open and causes an ignition device to ignite the fuel.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2016Date of Patent: January 2, 2018Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Susumu Kojima, Yusuke Suzuki
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Patent number: 9856816Abstract: When the temperature in a cylinder of an engine is low, the fuel injection amount of fuel that has a low vapor pressure and is less likely to be vaporized is increased, and the fuel injection amount of fuel that has a high vapor pressure and is more likely to be vaporized is reduced, so that the start timing of the engine can be kept constant. When the temperature in the cylinder is high, the fuel injection amount of the fuel that has a low vapor pressure and is more likely to be decomposed is reduced, and the fuel that has a high vapor pressure and is less likely to be burned (decomposed) is increased, so that the start timing of the engine can be kept constant. Thus, the start timing of the engine is kept constant irrespective of the fuel property, and deterioration of the drivability can be curbed.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2014Date of Patent: January 2, 2018Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Susumu Kojima, Yusuke Suzuki, Rui Onoda
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Patent number: 9853973Abstract: Inherent terminal identification information and a terminal unique key are stored in an on-board terminal, and server-side terminal identification information and a server-side terminal unique key, which are same information as the above terminal identification information and terminal unique key are stored in a server. And, the on-board terminal transmits the terminal identification information to the server via a communication terminal, and the server performs terminal authentication according to the server-side terminal identification information, and if the authentication is success, transmits encrypted software for the on-board terminal of which authentication was success to the communication terminal.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2014Date of Patent: December 26, 2017Assignee: CLARION CO., LTDInventors: Takashi Matsumoto, Atsushi Shimizu, Hiroyoshi Endo, Susumu Kojima, Haruhiko Sawajiri
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Patent number: 9815465Abstract: A control device according to the present invention performs an automatic stop control in which an injection of fuel from a fuel injection valve is stopped and a rotation of an engine is stopped when an automatic stop condition is satisfied. Furthermore, the control device controls an injection operation of fuel and an ignition operation to the fuel in consideration of compression when the fuel is actually ignited in an expansion stroke cylinder, when a re-start demand occurs after an initiation of the automatic stop control and the engine is to be re-started by an ignition start-up. Specifically, the control device predicts a crank angle at an actual ignition time point in a case where processing for performing the ignition start-up at the present time whenever a predetermined time period has passed. Then, the control device initiates the ignition start-up when the crank angle falls within a predetermined range in which a sufficient compression can be attained.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2016Date of Patent: November 14, 2017Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yusuke Suzuki, Susumu Kojima
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Publication number: 20170299399Abstract: An in-vehicle terminal sends a speech input from a voice input unit as a voice signal to a relay server using a short-range wireless communication unit. The relay server converts the voice data received from the in-vehicle terminal into a string with a voice recognition unit, and makes an inquiry, via a communication unit, to an address database of a database server as to whether the string is a geographical condition. If the string converted by the voice recognition unit is a geographical condition based on the inquiry result of the communication unit, a POI data base is searched based on the geographical condition and a stored non-geographical condition, and the geographical condition is stored in a search history. If the string is a non-geographical condition, the POI database is searched based on the non-geographical condition and the geographical condition stored in the search history, and the non-geographical condition is stored in the search history.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2015Publication date: October 19, 2017Inventors: Takashi YAMAGUCHI, Susumu KOJIMA
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Patent number: 9790879Abstract: A start control device of a vehicular direct injection engine provided in a vehicle is configured to execute an ignition start to raise rotation of the direct injection engine at a start of the direct injection engine by fuel injection and multiple sparking performed for a predetermined cylinder in an expansion stroke out of multiple cylinders of the direct injection engine, the start control device of a vehicular direct injection engine reduces the number of times of sparking for the predetermined cylinder at the time of an ignition start of the direct injection engine as compared to an ignition start performed before the current ignition start based on ignition timing of the ignition start performed before the current ignition start.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2012Date of Patent: October 17, 2017Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Susumu Kojima
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Publication number: 20170292852Abstract: An in-vehicle terminal sends a spoken voice as a voice signal to a relay server, and the relay server includes a voice recognition unit which converts the received voice signal into a string, and a control unit which searches for information stored in a main database or a temporary storage database by using the string and sends a search result to the in-vehicle terminal, and, upon searching for information stored in the main database, stores the search result in the temporary storage database. Upon receiving a voice signal, when the search result is stored in the temporary storage database, the control unit searches for information stored in the temporary storage database by using the string converted from the received voice signal, and, when the search result is not stored in the temporary storage database, the control unit searches for information stored in the main database by using the string.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2015Publication date: October 12, 2017Inventors: Susumu KOJIMA, Takashi YAMAGUCHI, Hideki TAKANO, Yasushi NAGAI